Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotes to Explore
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe -
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall -
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine -
A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
T. S. Kalyanaraman -
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Daniel Defoe -
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Alfred Russel Wallace -
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
Aristotle -
Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
Plato -
Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
Pythagoras -
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
Euripides -
Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
Euripides
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Great men are never cruel without necessity.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.
Honore de Balzac -
The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
Victor Hugo
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Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.
Thomas Carlyle -
I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I’ve written it or I haven’t, I’m very comfortable with both.
Kylie Minogue -
I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.
Damon Hill -
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
Albert Camus -
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
Arthur Schopenhauer